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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Kshama cares about manmade globull warming:

21 Sept 2014: Kshama Sawant: Speech from People’s Climate March NYC
A day before the largest climate action in history, Kshama Sawant joined Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, activists Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben and Chris Hedges in New York City for a panel discussion to debate the way forward for the environmental movement. Video jumps directly to Kshama, and you can read the speech below...

(excerpts) Our demands to the so called “world leaders” also need to be clear.
We need massive public projects to put an end to fossil fuel as part of a rapid transformation to clean energy, along with a dramatic expansion of mass transit—all of which would create millions of living-wage, unionized jobs...
We must face up to the fact that the so called free market will not be able to end its addiction to fossil fuels, and certainly not at the speed that is required...

It was great to hear Bernie Sanders tonight. There has been some talk about Bernie running for President in 2016, to provide an alternative to Hillary Clinton.
I don’t always agree with Bernie, I’ll be honest—especially his recent positions on US foreign policy. But just for a moment, let us imagine the impact of a well-known and credible independent left challenger of the stature of Bernie running as a challenge to the two parties of big business in the 2016 elections...
https://sawant.seattle.gov/speech-from-nyc-peoples-climate-march//

is she just as concerned about...

17 Nov 2018: NYT: ‘Tell Everyone We Scalped You!’ How Caste Still Rules in India
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj
The higher-caste men greeted Mr. Sardar with a punch to the face. Then they broke his arm. Then they pinned him down. Mr. Sardar shrieked for help. Nobody came.

One higher-caste man stuffed a rag in his mouth. Another gleefully pulled out a razor. He grabbed Mr. Sardar’s scalp and began to lift and cut, lift and cut, carving off nearly every inch of skin.
“Take that!” Mr. Sardar remembers them saying. “Tell everyone we scalped you!”

Mr. Sardar is a Dalit, a class of Indians who are not just considered lower caste, but technically outcaste — what used to be called untouchable. Bound at the bottom of India’s Hindu society for centuries, the Dalit population, now estimated at more than 300 million, has been abused for as long as anyone can remember...

In late October, a 14-year-old Dalit girl was beheaded by an upper-caste man whose wife said he hated the girl specifically because of her caste. A Dalit scavenger was tied up and fatally whipped outside a factory in May, in a beating captured on video and broadcast across India. In March, a Dalit man was killed by higher-caste men for riding a horse (traditionally, Dalits aren’t supposed to do that)...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/world/asia/tell-everyone-we-scalped-you-how-caste-still-rules-in-india.html


34 posted on 06/13/2020 6:10:18 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon
According to her official government biography, Sawant was born in Mumbai, India but relocated to the United States in the early 2000s after working as software engineer. 'Upon arriving in the US, the richest country in the world, Sawant was surprised and radicalized by the inequality and poverty that exists here,' the biography reads.

Coming from Mumbai she's shocked at inequality and poverty in United States. Can you wrap your head around that hutzpah? Sounds like an H1-B visa ingrate.

38 posted on 06/13/2020 6:16:26 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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